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• Early in 1945, after a tour at Pearl Harbor translating captured Japanese documents, I was ordered to Camp Susupe, serving initially as interpreter for the commander of Area 3, the Japanese compound.
• s commander of the Japanese compound, by far the largest of the three civilian areas, the duties I assumed were mostly of a supervisory nature;
• arine Corps civil affairs officers had landed on the Saipan beaches on 16 June 1944, the second day of the invasion, and on the fourth had declared the establishment of military government on the island.
• this task had been immeasurably lightened by the deaths of over one-third of the civilians on the island.
• The survivors include

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